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This blog post is the second part in a 3 Part series on how humans think and learn and the implications for the classroom. Part 1 is on Nobel prize winner (Econ) Psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast & Slow. Part 3 takes a look at current understandings of how…

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On my flight back to Madrid from our summer visit in Oregon I started reading Amanda Riply’s new book, The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way. I had been seeing positive reviews for it everywhere (e.g The Economist and the NY Times),…

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress…

Spring is in the air and following Alexander’s army my MS Ancient Civilizations class has moved from Greece/Persia to Ancient India. Although relatively compressed in many ways this is my favorite unit of the year. I use the first half of the unit to review…

All work below is belongs to ASM ITGS Class of 2017, please contact author for any permissions. (Shadrach thanks them all for their great work and permission to display them here. Great job!) For the last several years I have been teaching the 2 year…

I made it! To the curriculum headquarters of the International Baccalaureate!!! This photo was at the end of a 3 day whirlwind meeting on the Information Technology & Global Society External Review Committee… As you can probably tell by the photo it was a…

So my mother recently challenged me on facebook to do a 7-day Nature Photography challenge. These sort of things go around social media like modern day chain letters and I always find them some what cute and community building (although many find them mildly annoying).…